Variational characterizations of the effective multiplication factor of a nuclear reactor core

DOI10.3934/KRM.2009.2.307zbMATH Open1196.82140arXiv0805.3120OpenAlexW2963801607MaRDI QIDQ973901FDOQ973901

Authors: Bertrand Lods 

Publication date: 26 May 2010

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive some new inf-sup and sup-inf formulae for the so-called effective multiplication factor arising in the study of reactor analysis. We treat in a same formalism the transport equation and the energy-dependent diffusion equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3120

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zbMATH Keywords

positivitynuclear reactorneutron transport equationeffective multiplication factorenergy--dependent diffusion equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

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